Sithspit. While there were some very specific date-sensitive systems, the Y2K bug was largely hype.

I remember lieing in bed, sick, about two weeks before the date rollover, when I had a violent case of the obvious: why would my computer care if the date is Jan 1, 1900 (or 19100)? The majority of computers wouldn't.

Now, there are computers that do care, and were proven to care by putting the dates to Dec 31, 1999 @ 11:59pm and waiting a few minutes. Billing systems in particular were affected, so we were looking at a potential finacial crisis. And yes, it was largely FORTRAN and COBOL code.

But the power would continue to run. Satalites would not fall. Nukes would not be launched.

"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

In reply to Re^2: 1111111111 by hardburn
in thread 1111111111 by esskar

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